Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-05-14

DR.. W. T. Northrup, prominent ply
stefan of Haverhill, Scioto county, o.,
was murdered by Thomas Mccoy, a sa-
loon keeper, and his brother, Alfred, the
postmaster at Haverhill, aided by the
two sons of Alfred Mccoy. DIR. North
rup had incurred the displeasure of the
McCoys by being active in favor Of local
option. They waylaid him when he was
going to his Office, and began firing on
him with pistols and shotguns. He was
unarmed, and drew a pocket-knife and
badly wounded Alfred Mccoy before he
was fatally shot.
The grand jury at Ozark, Ark, that
have been investigating the Bald Knob
bers, have finished their work and were
discharged, after handing in fifteen more
indictments. The total number of in
dictments found by the jury is $50,
against eighty individuals, some of them
being indicted in four or five cases.
A vault and safe in the ship-chandlery
of G. B. Carpenter & Co., in Chicago,was
drilled open and money and jewelry
aggregating $1,000 were stolen, $1,000
of the amount being in cash or nego-
table paper. The jewelry belonged to
the Carpenter family, and was stored in
the vault for safety.
Samuel U. Holland, ex-treasurer of
Carroll county, Ind, was arrested for
embezzlement and held in $4,000 bail.
When he vacated his Office recently
discrepancy of $14, $50 was discovered in
his accounts.
Five boys ate wild parsnips in the
woods near Boonville, Ill. Three of
them died within an hour, and fourth
is not expected to recover.
Three children were burned to death
in a farmhouse near White Wright,
Tex Their mother locked them up
while she made call at neighbours.
The Grant relics in the Natione!, Mti-
scum, in Washington, are now being
placed on public exhibition. Recently
two handsome plush lined cases filled
with articles from the collection were
placed in the north hall of the museum,
near the main entrance. They contained
the presentation swords, gold-headed
canes, caskets, medallions and many
other costly and elegant articles presented
by different people at different times to
General Grant. Many of these articles
are souvenirs of his trip around the
world.
1t is said at the pension bureau in
Washington that nearly 400 pensions
have been granted under the Mexican
service act of January go. About $4,000
Mexican claims have been received at
the pension office up to date.
General Master Workman Powderly
will visit Chicago to give personal atten-
ton to the state of the order of Knights
of Labor there, especially with refer
ence to it's connection with the political
movement, and the degree of success
Anarchist leaders had met with in their
attempts to honeycomb the assemblies at
tached to District "a.
The ordnance shops at the Washing
ton Navy Yard nave been ordered to be-
gin Immediately the construction OF
another ten-inch breech-loading rifled
gun for the Boston. The two ten-inch guns
now building at the yard are well on tee,
ward completion.
The acting secretary Of the interior
has approved decision by the commits
sioner of the general land office, holding
that the triangular body of land embrac-
ing some 100000 acres, lying northwest
of the unforfeited grant to the Oregon
Central Railroad Company lying along
the line of the forfeited portion, to be
public lands and subject to entry.
At a meeting of wire nail manufac-
turers in Pittsburg, permanent national
association was formed, with d. G. Hart
man, of Beaver Falls, Pa, as presi-
dent, and G. D. Jones, of New York, as
secretary. No change was made in
prices, but the list was modified some
what. Every wire nail manufacturer in
the country was represented.
telegram from Chicago says that
strike directly affecting 5000 or 5000
hod-carriers and laborers, and necessarily
involving practically all bricklayers, plas-
terers and stonemasons in the city, is i'm
pending, and building operations in
Chicago promise to be indefinitely sus-
pended again. The hod-carriers and Ia
borers, following the example of the
painters and carpenters, made demand
some months ago for higher wages and
shorter hours. The master masons and
builders will resist.
Major Innes Randolph, one of the
editors of the Baltimore Ame,Tcun, died
at the age of fifty years. He was mem
Der of the Randolph family of Virginia,
and was a man of remarkable scholarly
attainments.
At Roseburg Station, twelve miles
west of Pittsburg, Abraham McCrea and
John Gibbs quarreled over disparaging
remark made by the latter about young
woman. Gibbs struck McCrea on the
head with cane, and McCrea shot Gibbs
in the face. At last accounts both were
in critical condition.
Pleuro- pneumonia is reported to be
more prevalent in Chicago and its vicin-
ity than ever before. Eight thousand
and two hundred cows are in quarantine,
and 200 have been slaughtered.
1t is announced that the governor of
Montana will proclaim quarantine on
Texas cattle from Illinois, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Vir-
ginia, Vermont and Texas.
The Vatican has notified France that
General Boulanger's military law, which
refuses exemption from military services
to youth or men studying for the priest
hood, is an infringement of the Concor-
dat, and has demanded it's withdrawal.
The Cologne Gazette publishes list of
Frtnch agents who have been arrested
and convicted in Germany and defies the
French government to adduce single
case where German government agent
has been convicted of espionage in
| France.
The Kreus Zeitung, of Berlin, repre-